Cress - Primal Luna
The morning sun makes me feel slightly giddy. My rings react quite playfully whenever I'm in the light of human worlds, and this place is no exception.
I feel a tug on my hair and realize that a bird is playing with my hair. I shoo it off and try to figure out where Ruga could be.
He would hide. He always does. He makes it seem like a game, this…this Primal, I think angrily, He wants to live, and I'll try going for his throat as quickly as possible.
I float down to the ground, placing my feet on the dirt carefully. Around me, humans are asleep, like young children during a car trip.
I walk past the humans, surveying their faces for any trace of Ruga.
Oh? I spot two humans, one with the likeness of Glass and the other I don't know. They're running in my direction.
I sigh. I'm not in the mood to fight mere Legends. I want to fight Ruga, and only his death will satisfy me.
The humans stop in front of me. The girl with Glass's likeness – no, Krystal – seems wide awake. The other human looks like she recently woke up.
"Leave me be," I say, my voice tainted with psychic power.
"What do you want?" Krystal demands, stepping closer to me.
"Ruga," I say, deciding to float a few inches from the ground.
"Darren?" the human says, blinking.
I shake my head and say, "No, not the untainted Ruga…the Ruga who killed Doppelganger. Where is he?"
"Untainted?" the human says, whirling on Krystal as she adds, "Do you know anything about this?"
Krystal shakes her head. I see the chagrin in her eyes, mixed with fear. It causes me to smile, despite my anger.
"So Glass brought me here without consent," I say, floating over to a young sleeping girl and stroking her cheek. The sleeping girl doesn't react.
"G-Glass? You mean Glassina?" the human says.
"So you know something, Maybella," Krystal says, "and here I thought that-"
"Maybella?" I say. Yes, before I woke up, I heard Glass talking about a human named Maybella. Perhaps I can use this to my own purpose.
Maybella nods, although her face shows a bit of discomfort.
"Tell me…Maybella," I say, turning to the pair, "Why is the city asleep, except us?"
"W-we think it's caused by your awakening," Maybella says, "I fell asleep too, but Krystal woke me up and told me we had to check the city for the source."
"I see," I say, my rings glowing. Ah, there's a Primal nearby. Maybe Glass sent out a search party again.
A new feeling causes me to look around. I hadn't felt the presence of a mythological creature for years, yet one's approaching right now.
I rise up and notice that Quaza, Dawn, and Deo are heading towards my location.
I growl. I don't want to fight them, not here and now.
"Krystal, Maybella," I say as I begin using my psychic powers to get them under my will, "I will hide with you two, and you will forget that we spoke about Ruga. Is that understood?"
Maybella nods immediately, but Krystal takes a moment to nod. Legends and Primals, I remember, are harder to bend than humans.
I float to the ground and use my powers to disguise myself. Krystal and Maybella quickly fall behind me as we run to the mansion.
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"I'm quite sorry," I say as we sit in Krystal's bedroom, "Now that everyone's waking up, the humans will be inclined to report everything about what they assume about my awakening."
"As long as you don't go to the window, we're fine," Krystal says, closing the curtains.
"Who are you, anyway? And why are you here?" Maybella asks.
"My name is Cress," I say as I begin dispelling the disguise, "and…"
"Cress? You mean you're Luna?" Krystal says, obviously confused.
"Yes and no," I say, "I am Luna, yes, but I'm from a different version of this universe. My universe, alas, has had…tragedies."
"What sort?" Maybella says.
"Well, Glass lost a close friend after being infected," I begin, "and then she infected us with Needle's drug…but it was tainted with her blood. Quite a few beings, including the Experiments, were killed."
Maybella gasps, but Krystal says, "Listen, Cress, I don't mean to sound harsh or anything, but…we have to let Tyro and Nicole know that you're here. I think you mentioned 'Ruga' when we first met, though…"
I silently curse myself. Of course I didn't use enough energy on Krystal. I had no choice: I have to confess.
"Yes," I say, "You see, in my universe…Ruga killed Doppelganger in front of me."
I close my eyes and remember the bloody fate that met Doppelganger. I can hear myself screaming as I was held back by Glass and Temple-walker, Glass whispering about how Doppelganger's death was necessary…
I feel my hands curl into fists. Glass, at least, had been careful to conceal the actual killings of Meg and Edna…in our life, our reality, our piece of frozen time.
"I've tried to avenge Doppelganger," I continue, "but everyone else…is so concentrated on helping Ruga stay alive…it's like I'm unwelcome when I wake up, yet I know that I have to…"
I open my eyes and notice that Maybella's gone, but before I can speak, Krystal says, "She's going to get Tyro and Nicole up here. I think it'd be best if you can tell us what you know."
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When the three came, I had decided not to answer all the questions about ourselves. It'd be risky, especially if we decided to destroy this universe.
"How many of you are there?" the human I assume is Nicole says.
"Fifteen," I say, calmly.
"Where did you come from?" Nicole presses.
"A…fragment of reality," I say, averting my eyes. I never knew how to explain that.
"A fragment?" Tyro says.
"Our version of the city was cut off from our original universe," I say, "Kia…I mean, our Paru tried to return us to the world of Pokemon. It resulted in us living in a fragment of reality, where the sun never shines and the moon never appears."
Krystal and Tyro look at each other. I suddenly wonder where Gira's affections for Glass went.
"The humans would've been frozen in time, if Ruga hadn't set time flowing again," I add, "and we had to make sure that the humans lived…which was fairly easy, considering that we decided to steal resources from other universes for a time."
"What do you guys want with this universe?" Maybella demands.
"Well, if I'm right and Glass has her motivation still, she should be trying to steal the Legends from this universe and infect them with our…disease," I say, having to struggle for the right word.
"And are you against this?" Krystal says.
"No, not really," I say with a nonchalant wave of my hand, "The only things I don't tolerate are Doppelganger dying and Ruga remaining alive."
"But what about the three that were flying?" Krystal says, "They looked awfully familiar-"
"Their names are Quaza, Dawn, and Deo," I say, "You might know them as Ray, Iris, and Syx."
"W-wait, you mean some of the Legends from the forest were infected?" Krystal says.
"Impossible!" Tyro says, "How would Glass be able to infect them?"
"Yes, that's what I asked as well," I say, "She said that she sent over needles with her blood on them, along with a note telling the forest Legends to infect themselves for power…most of them, luckily, didn't infect successfully. They showed no sign of any real difference, other than the few who were infected."
"And Syx was one of them," Nicole says, "Can you guys enlighten me on who Syx was?"
"Deoxys," Krystal says.
"Wow, so all thirty-five of you did come here?" Maybella says.
"That's what happened in our universe," I say, "including Arceus himself."
"Is there any way to defeat…what do you call yourselves?" Nicole says.
"We are known as the Primal," I say ruefully, "The Legends who have a taste of their former power…and want more."